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From a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes a thrilling crime novel: Detective Josie Quinn’s past crashes into her present when a killer is willing to do anything to reveal the truth.

 
When two young boys discover human bones buried beneath a tree in a trailer park,…

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Detective Josie Quinn is forced to confront her past when a body is found near the trailer park where she was raised.

Things hit much too close to home when the body is identified and the name given is the same as that of her abusive mother, a woman Josie knows is very much alive. The story alternates between the present-day investigation and the past, with those vignettes giving us insight into Josie’s childhood – much of it bleak but greatly illuminating her character.

All is not darkness, however: there’s a budding romance and we get to see Josie befriending…

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